Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania carries 132 Bunkabop connections with 5664 other places across 16 topics, spanning government, nature, history, and industry. A sheriff's posse fired on unarmed striking miners in the Lattimer massacre, and an underground mine fire burned near Laurel Run starting in December 1915. From the 1930s to the 1980s, Pittston City rose as a national clothing manufacturing center. A judicial corruption scandal in which two judges were convicted for steering juveniles into private detention facilities extends the county's ties to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.